Historical Artifacts

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Ornate flintlock gun with heart-shaped muzzle, Germany, ~1765 AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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[–] bestagon 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if anyone ever tried to develop rifling with irregularly shaped bullets

[–] TwanHE 5 points 2 days ago

Whitworth rifle is the only one with a non round rifled bore that I know of.

[–] MutilationWave 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rifling being the grooves inside the barrel that make the bullet spin, I'm thinking not. I can't imagine anything but a cylinder working.

[–] bestagon 3 points 2 days ago

I thought maybe if you had a shaped barrel and then just twisted it, you could spiral a bullet without cutting groves. Not sure if you’d ever find that easier than conventional rifling but people have tried wackier shit